GCC’s stand on Hezbollah welcome, says Kingdom

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — The Council of Ministers on Monday reaffirmed the decision of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to consider Hezbollah militia’s leaders, affiliated factions and organizations as terrorists. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman chaired the weekly session of the Cabinet at Al-Yamama Palace in Riyadh. The Cabinet noted that the GCC took the decision against Hezbollah after taking into account its continuing hostilities and its flagrant violation of the sovereignty of Gulf states and its destabilizing of regional security and stability, as well as its practices which are contrary to humanitarian values and international laws. Adel Al-Turaifi, minister of culture and information, said that the Cabinet welcomed the ‘Tunisia Declaration,’ adopted recently by the 33rd session of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers, reiterating its strong condemnation of terrorism, its supporters and financiers. The Cabinet valued the strong message of the declaration, which condemned the attack on Saudi missions in Iran as well as the Iranian activities aimed at destabilizing the security and stability in Bahrain and other Arab states. The Cabinet approved that the government will meet the tuition fee of children of the Kingdom’s diplomatic mission staff as well as foreign scholarship students who return to the country in line with orders issued in the wake of political, security, and health situations or natural calamities in the countries where they had been sent.